Re: [Gretl-devel] MIDAS: gretl crash

On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Artur T. wrote: > >> Attached you find a picture. Nothing 'greyed out' here. Also: When I >> click on "Garch variants" a menu opens stating that the gig package was >> not found. Not sure whether this also should be 'greyed out" as long as >> no dataset is in place. > > OMG. This is on Ubuntu, I take it? [...] Ah, taking a closer look at the screenshot, it seems all the more plausible that there's an evil Ubuntu demon at work here. Note that the top bar of the gretl main window here is a combination of window-manager-type bar (with close, minimize, maximize controls at the left) and gretl menu bar. That is not "natural": it must be achieved via special code to intercept GTK menu-function calls (as issued by gretl) and translate them into Ubuntu's preferred form -- that is, pulling gretl's menus out of their "natural" context and absorbing them into another interface. One might admire the cleverness of such interception were it not for the fact that it's totally half-baked and results in crashing the application! [Ignacio showed us an earlier form of this at the gretl conference in Oklahoma City in 2013. (Thanks again, Lee!) At that time Ubuntu's "Unity" was pulling main-menus out of applications altogether and sticking them into a Mac-style top-of-screen menu bar. Clever, but not clever enough: strange brokenness resulted.] Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel